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British Literary Manuscripts Online
Representing the largest digitisiation project of its kind, British Literary Manuscripts Online consists of two digital collections, British Literary Manuscripts Online, c.1660-1900 and British Literary Manuscripts Online: Medieval and Renaissance. Both parts are available to institutions as stand alone collections. Alternatively, institutions can purchase both parts together enabling students and researchers to cross-search the collections on the one intuitive and user-friendly interface and access 700 years of British literary manuscripts online.
British Literary Manuscripts Online c.1660-1900
British Literary Manuscripts Online c.1660-1900 provides an intimate look into the lives and works of Britain’s major writers across two hundred years. From the rise of Charles II to the death of Queen Victoria British Literary Manuscripts Online c.1660-1900 contains complete facsimile copies of author manuscripts including poems,plays, and novels, diaries and letters as well as drawings and handwritten drafts. The collection traces the development of literary movements from the classicism of Pope and Johnson to the Romanticism of Wordsworth and the gothic novels of the Brontës. Users can search across 400,000 pages by metadata which includes author, named person and title of the work.
A sample list of manuscripts in BLMO c.1660-1900 :
The second part of British Literary Manuscripts Online series, British Literary Manuscripts Online: Medieval & Renaissance offers students and researchers unprecedented online access to 565,000 pages of rare manuscripts from the Medieval and Early Modern periods, c.1100 to 1660. Researchers and students can explore online a rich tapestry of letters, poems, stories, plays, chronicles, religious writings and commonplace books through searchable catalogue records.
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